Added Nat to Planet SuSE today. Reminded me of a conversation I had with jdub a couple of weeks ago. Planet SuSE seems, in addition to being a contact point for the SuSE community to keep in touch with what's going on, and the Ximian monkeys are more than welcome. We love you guys, and the work you do rocks hard! But, in addition to that, is filling void left by the (apparently) defunct Planet Novell (link offline).

This is therefore a call to anyone from Novell, who feels they would be at home with a blog appearing on Planet SuSE to get in touch. If you contribute, we want to know how. Anyone from SuSE too who blogs, or wants to, to keep the community informed, drop me a line, let's make this the biggest and best planet there is.

This is what it's all about:

The new camera arrived today (free next-day delivery - nice one cameras2u.com). Now, there's not much to snap at in the office, so to test it out, I just took this photo of my mug:

By default, the HP PhotoSmart 735 is configured to use PTP mode rather than be a USB Mass Storage device. Now, although it would work perfectly well under Linux as the latter (and indeed, SuSE would automatically add it to /etc/fstab when connected), it's much better in PTP mode. I simply had to fire up gtkam, and tell it to detect my camera. It did perfectly, and then I could quite easily view my images as thumbnails, and save them (along with the thumbs) wherever I wanted.

We had Overload by the Sugababes playing in the office this morning, and I realised that the song really concerns me. The chorus begins with the words

The train comes, I don't know it's destination

Now, this raises two thoughts in my mind:

1. She really should look at the information screens above the platform. They will inform her not only of the ultimate destination of the approaching locomotive, but also all stopping stations between her boarding point and the conclusion of it's journey.
2. If she still doesn't know it's destination, she really shouldn't board the train. She may not have a ticket that is valid for the whole of her journey. This, I fear, would constitute a criminal offence on her part.

Overload has a serious message about appropriate use of our railway network that I think we would all do well to heed.